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Happy New Year Everyone.
Politically, 2025 has been a weirdly unpleasant year here in the UK, with “Sir” Keir Starmer apparently intent on becoming less popular than a blocked sewer. Which is an odd ambition, but even odder is how so many of his senior political colleagues seem unwilling or unable to tackle the blockage.
We might expect 2026 to be better from such a low base, but the portents are not good. It isn't easy to see why 2026 should be better than 2025 when the horrible sound of dud charlatans scrabbling for position occupies mainstream discourse so effectively.
Yet there are positive signs which may be more positive than we know.
- Keir Starmer's unpopularity is a compelling example of politicians we don't need as Prime Minister.
- Rachel from Accounts is an equally compelling example of politicians we don't need as Chancellor.
- Ed Miliband is a wholly convincing example of why we don't need another Ed Miliband - ever.
People must have noticed and polls suggest many have.
So Happy New Year to all those who happen to find their way here and linger for a while, if only because the weather is too unpleasant to venture out.
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A Happy New Year, everyone and thank you all for the random diversions.
Well thank you and same back to you, dear sir and lady.
Dead AK, A very good new year to you.
Many years ago Hogmanay was a time of optimism. And so it proved to be. For me every year was better than the previous. Perhaps because I started off at the bottom. Although at the time I was blessed with loving parents, two loving families, and friends who were happily in the same humble station in life. And for us all it got better and better. We could travel safely anywhere in the World. Jobs were for life. Homes were affordable. And so on.
Now many decades later we are all in decline. Morally, financially, societally, any way you look at it.
So, I have no expectation that next year will be better, in any way whatsoever.
Sad
As a complete aside, AK, is your monicker a pun?
Ache heart. Heart Ache.
Many, many thanks for your regular and thought provoking posts.
Jannie and James - thanks and thanks for popping in, makes it worthwhile.
Doonhamer - thanks for dropping in and yes, I remember those better times too. Whether to dwell on the contrast I don't know, it's necessary to make the comparisons, but decline has established itself to such a degree that it can't be ignored. Life has to be lived too.
My moniker is an adapted version of a name I saw years ago on an old local gravestone. A published writer giving a talk had told us that authors should choose a unique pseudonym and check its uniqueness on Google so I did.
I lost interest in New Year celebrations when I stopped first-footing. But I am delighted to wish all a Happy New Year.
As for our blogger I assumed that his pseudonym was an anagram of a joke spelling of catarrh. (Whatever happened to "catarrh"? You never hear about it these days.)
dearieme - first-footing takes me back to a time when I took a piece of coal from my in-laws' coal shed before knocking on their door. I had dark hair in those days too.
Maybe people consume too much garlic to have catarrh now. I recall a very old claim that garlic "cutteth the catarrh".
I hereby predict next November's headlines: "NHS scrambles to fight super-catarrh epidemic".
dearieme - I've just remembered, it was "garlic cutteth the phlegm", not catarrh. We probably won't see headlines such as "NHS scrambles to fight super-phlegm epidemic" though.
Happy New Year!
Bucko - and to you!
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